Drugs flood drinking water

For once, the programmies were right: I probably am on drugs! But I just didn't know it until now.

An investigative report by the Associated Press has just found that at least 41,000,000 Americans have pharmaceutical drugs in their drinking water supply. These range from antibiotics to sex hormones to ibuprofen to psychotropic drugs to steroids. Gobs of it!

Scientists say the problem is so severe now that it poses serious long-term health risks to the American public. The contaminated water has already ruined wildlife, especially fish.

One wonders how the drugs get in our wa. Well, millions of Americans take these drugs. Much of the drugs get peed or pooped out and become mixed in with wastewater, which goes back into reservoirs and rivers - which becomes drinking water. Drinking water is supposed to be treated before reaching the public - but the treatments water companies use today are ineffective. Water from wells in rural areas isn't safe either. Most home filters that you can buy also do not sift out drugs - and many brands of bottled wa are actually repackaged tap water, so it's also unsafe.

The threat is probably much worse than it appears, because the federal government won't set limits for pharmaceutical drugs in drinking water. (They'd rather bust cancer patients who use medical marijuana.)

Water companies seem to be living in denial, so I think it's time the federal government establish some standards.

(Source: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KY_PHARMAWATER_I_KYOL-?SITE=OHCIN&SECTION=TENNIS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT)